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Morality Quotes
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
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"The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear."
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"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."
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"The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?"
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"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified."
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"One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light."
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"Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving."
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"In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin."
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"A beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different from insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."
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"I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil."
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"They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
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"Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels."
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"Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question."
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"Well, evil to some is always good to others."
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"The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things."
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"[H]er retaliation only made the sin the greater because she could not find words to confess."
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"What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action."
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"And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have."
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"At the end of the day, I can't force any of you to treat people the way you should. But it should be on your conscience that whatever law I pass won't do much unless each of you takes it upon yourself to show kindness to your fellow citizens."
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"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
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"Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation."
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"You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them."
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"Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!"
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"We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help."
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